TY - JOUR
AU - Hennessy, J. L.
AB - This paper describes the multi-tasking capabilities of a new microprocessor programming language that has been designed to support process control applications. A program in TOMAL is a collection of tasks, priority ordered, and possibly having real-time response constraints and internal synchronization statements. It also supports device-independent I/O programming, by allowing the characteristics of each external device to be given in a declaration. A TOMAL source program is translated into space-optimized, absolute code for a target microprocessor. The object program runs under the control of a compact, application-tailored Task Control Monitor that is also generated by the compiler. The paper discusses design philosophy and several important requirements of an implementation to achieve multi-tasking capabilities.
TI - TOMAL: a high-level programming language for microprocessor process control applications
JF - ACM SIGMINI Newsletter
DO - 10.1145/1164881.1164900
DA - 1976-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/association-for-computing-machinery/tomal-a-high-level-programming-language-for-microprocessor-process-8jrMB8wc4G
SP - 10
VL - 2
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -